2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Explained

5th Islamic Solidarity Games
Size:200px
Host City:Konya
Nations:55
Athletes:4200
Events:380 in 19 Sports
Opening:9 August 2022
Closing:18 August 2022
Opened By:President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Athlete Oath:Öznur Cüre
Judge Oath:Serkan Karademir
Stadium:Konya Metropolitan Stadium
Website:konya2021.com
Previous:2017 Baku
Next:2025 Riyadh

‌The 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games (Turkish: 2021 İslami Dayanışma Oyunları) were the 5th edition of the event held from 9 to 18 August 2022 at Konya, Turkey under the aegis of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF). It was the first time in history that the event was organised by the Turkish Olympic Committee.

Formerly scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021, the event was postponed to be held from 10 to 19 September 2021 in July 2020 by the ISSF because the original dates were coinciding with the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] [2] [3] In May 2021, the ISSF postponed the event to August 2022 citing the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the participating countries.[4]

Bidding

On 22 / 23 December 2016, the Turkish Olympic Committee submitted its bid for 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games during a Coordination Meeting with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation held at the country.[5]

On 13 April 2017, Istanbul was awarded the event during the 25th ISSF Executive Board meeting held at Baku, Azerbaijan.[6] In December 2019, Turkey requested to change the host city from Istanbul to Konya, which was subsequently approved by the ISSF. The host city contract was signed in a meeting on 19 December 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.

Venues

Venue Name Sports
19 May Sports Hall Taekwondo, Fencing
Football
Volleyball, Basketball, 3×3 Karate
Football, Ceremonies
Swimming, Para Swimming
Athletics, Para Athletics
Konya Technical University Sports Hall Judo, Wrestling
Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Cycling Track
Selcuk University 15 July Stadium Football
Handball, Kickboxing
Shooting, Para Shooting, Archery, Para Archery, Traditional Turkish Archery
Table Tennis, Para Table Teniis, Weightlifting, Bocce

Sports

In October 2019, Organizing Committee in cooperation with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) announced following 24 disciplines from 21 sports to be contested in this edition of Islamic Solidarity Games. Some sports also included their paralympic counterpart as athletics, judo, swimming and weightlifting.[7] In March 2022, the final program was announced with 22 disciplines from 19 sports including 4 para sports. In relation with the program from 5 years early, the organizers choose to remove 6 sports: water polo, diving, field hockey, tennis, wushu and zurkhaneh. At their place they choose to add archery, boccia, fencing and kickboxing. At the paralympic events parapowerlifiting and blind judo was dropped and their place was added para table tennis and para archery.Along this events, in archery was included 4 extra events with the Traditional Turkish Archery discipline.[8]

Schedule

The Games were originally scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021 in Konya, Turkey.[9] In May 2020, the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), who are responsible for the direction and control of the Islamic Solidarity Games, postponed the games as the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to July and August 2021, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.[10] [11]

OC Opening ceremonyEvent competitions1 Event finalsCC Closing ceremony
August5
Fri
6
Sat
7
Sun
8
Mon
9
Tue
10
Wed
11
Thu
12
Fri
13
Sat
14
Sun
15
Mon
16
Tue
17
Wed
18
Thu
Events
CeremoniesOC CC
Archery5 6 2 2 6 4 25
Athletics6 8 8 11 9 43
3x3 basketball2 2
Bocce10 10
Cycling2 2 2 2 2 2 12
Fencing2 3 3 4 12
Football1 1
Gymnastics2 6 8 2 4 27
Handball2 2
Judo7 7 2 16
Karate7 7 14
Kickboxing4 10 17 31
Shooting2 1 21 6
Swimming5 4 4 4 4 7 8 8 9 8 61
Table tennis2 2 4 3 11
Taekwondo4 4 4 4 16
Volleyball2 2
Weightlifting9 12 9 15 15 60
Wrestling7 8 8 7 30
Daily medal events 2 2 7 14 16 25 48 49 25 39 42 27 41 32 381
Cumulative total 2 4 11 25 41 66 114 163 188 227 269 296 337
August 20225
Fri
6
Sat
7
Sun
8
Mon
9
Tue
10
Wed
11
Thu
12
Fri
13
Sat
14
Sun
15
Mon
16
Tue
17
Wed
18
Thu
Total events

Source:[12]

Participating nations

It is expected that the 55 members of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation will present at the Games. In May 2022, Egypt announced it will not send athletes.[13] In July 2022, Iraq withdrew from participation.

Below is a list of all the participating NOCs; the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 14 July 2020. New dates for Islamic Solidarity Games announced. 28 July 2020. The Nation. en.
  2. Web site: Cakmak. Fatih. 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Turkey rescheduled. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200728175508/https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/5th-islamic-solidarity-games-in-turkey-rescheduled/1875553. 28 July 2020. 13 August 2020. 13 June 2020.
  3. Web site: Pakistan Olympic Association. 2020-07-28. www.nocpakistan.org.
  4. Web site: 4 May 2021. Report des 5e Jeux de la Solidarité Islamique Konya 2021. live. 15 May 2021. Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation. https://web.archive.org/web/20210508123804/https://issf.sa/en/?p=5355 . 8 May 2021 .
  5. Web site: The 2nd Coordination Meeting 5o submit the file of organizing the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in 2021 . 5 January 2017 . www.issf.sa.en . 21 April 2020.
  6. Web site: The 25th ISSF Executive Board Meeting . 13 April 2017 . www.issf.sa.en . 21 April 2020.
  7. Web site: Meeting with Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey and the 5th ISG Organizing Committee Konya 20201 . 18 October 2019 . www.issf.sa.en . 21 April 2020 . 31 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191031215211/https://issf.sa/en/?p=5245 . dead .
  8. Web site: Konya 2021 . 18 April 2022 . 27 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927170403/http://konya2021.com/sports.aspx?id=0 . dead .
  9. News: Konya to host the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games . 19 December 2019 . Daily Sabah . 23 January 2020.
  10. Web site: 5th Islamic Solidarity Games 2021 in Turkey postponed. Muhammad. Ali. 16 May 2020. Daily Times. en-US. 17 May 2020.
  11. News: Iveson. Ali. 17 May 2020. Islamic Solidarity Games postponed to avoid Tokyo 2020 clash. InsideTheGames.biz. 26 May 2020.
  12. Web site: Konya 2021 . 18 April 2022 . 18 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220418080156/http://konya2021.com/Schedule.aspx . dead .
  13. Web site: مصر تعتذر عن المشاركة بدورة التضامن الإسلامي بتركيا. 16 May 2022.